Cirsonella weldii

Cirsonella weldii
Drawing with two views of a shell of Cirsonella weldii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Skeneidae
Genus:	Cirsonella
Species:	C. weldii
Binomial name
Cirsonella weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1877) [1]
Synonyms [2]
Cirsonella australisAngas, 1877 Cirsonella naticoides(Hedley, 1907) Crossea naticoidesHedley, C., 1907 Cyclostrema susonisTenison-Woods, 1877 Cyclostrema weldiiTenison-Woods, 1877 Teinostoma (Cirsonella) australeAngas, 1877

Cirsonella weldii, with the common name of the shiny liotia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the of family Skeneidae. ^[2]

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 2 mm. The shining, white shell has a globosely turbinate shape. It is narrowly umbilicated, semi-opaque, and smooth. The four whorls are convex. The body whorl is large and rounded at the periphery. The aperture is circular. It's peristome is continuous and slightly thickened on the columellar margin. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the coasts of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, Australia.

References

1. Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. On some new Tasmanian marine shells. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1876: 131-159
2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Cirsonella weldii (Tenison-Woods, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598299 on 2012-09-01
3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Teinostoma (Cirsonella) australe )

• Angas, G.F. 1877. Descriptions of two genera and twenty species of marine shells from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 34-40, pl. 5
• Cotton, B.C. 1945. Southern Australian Gastropoda. Part 1. Streptoneura. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69(1): 150-171
• Laseron, C. 1954. Revision of the Liotiidae of New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 12(1): 1-25, figs 1-49a
• Cotton, B.C. 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia. Adelaide : South Australian Government Printer 449 pp

External links

• World Register of Marine Species
• "Cirsonella weldii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.